Bakery Dough Mixers

Updated on June 22, 2011

Dough Mixers In Bakery

Dough Mixers are used in bakeries to mix large amount of ingredients such as flour , fat , sugar and other additives in short time . Automated plants have bigger mixers handling 500kg - 1000 kg per batch for continuous production .Mixing process in bakery uses Mixers for preparation of Dough of hard and short variety for products like bread , biscuits , cookies , buns etc . Mixers are also used to prepare batter which is can be pumped for producing cakes , wafers , cookies etc .

Mixers consists of s.s body parts and have shaft in various to mix these ingredients . These shaft is of various design to perform mixing action in mixer . Mixer arms are driven through either direct geared motors coupled to the shaft or through sprocket & chain with help of motors . Rating of motors varies as per the capacity of mixers .

Dough Mixers have fixed or movable mixing bowl which can then be used to transport dough to the stage of manufacturing process of forming . Most of bakeries have tipping or dough elevators to feed dough into next process.

Mixing times are different for different product operators have standard mixing time and could vary mixing time as per ingredients quality . Operators checks for dough or batter consistency and other parameters like temperature while sending it for next stage .

Bakery Mixers now days have software where we can fed mixing time for single stage or two stage mixing and Mixers automaticaly changes mixing speed . Industrial Dough mixers are provided with jackets to allow hot water or chilled water to control dough temperatures during mixing .